My PhD Defense

Yesterday I completed and submitted my PhD dissertation to my committee. I will defend in 2 weeks.

For those unaware, the process of obtaining a PhD is long and complicated and contains many requirements. Most of these I completed years ago. The largest and final requirement is to summarize all your work in a dissertation which is reviewed by a committee of 5 people (other physicists) and then to defend the work, which involves a 45 minute presentation followed by a Q&A session.

My thesis/dissertation took about 5 months to write and ended at exactly 150 pages (29000+ words). To say I am relieved to have printed copies and handed them to the committee is an understatement.

To say I am tired now after working overtime on this during this last week especially is also an understatement.

My next step is to write the presentation and begin studying for any questions they may ask me. Within two weeks from today, it should hopefully all be over.

Facetiming With The Bear

Several months ago, my BFF Florence graduated with her PhD (yes, she beat me…) and very soon after went and got herself a bit of a dream job. The only catch: it’s in New Mexico.

At the time she forbade me from doing a ‘Bon voyage’ Florence blog post since she was quite sad about leaving, and I humbly resisted.

But today is her BIRTHDAY and I shall be silent no longer!

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She got herself an iPad and we FaceTime frequently. She’s a funny face timer too, since I’m not sure she realizes there’s a camera on the thing judging by some of the faces she pulls 🙂

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And yes, even as I type this I fear the next face after she has seen what I’ve posted. But hey, it’s her BIRTHDAY and after all the teasing she does to me I figure she can get some back this once.

So Happy Birthday Florence. Kick back, relax, bask in the attention and fabulous gifts and please forgive your BFF for doing exactly as he has always said he would and post these funny pictures to his blog 🙂

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Oh, and the world is waiting for a update to your blog as well! You got us all excited during England and left us hanging 🙂

Dumbstruck

I present this video without commentary since… well since I’m speechless. Be sure to watch the whole thing!